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Blog postCard Sharp Silver: A Cave Creek Novel This book got sidetracked badly because of Covid this last year. I just sort of put it away for the longest time, then finally brought it back out in November after the election and started dinging at it again, planning to have it done right about now. It’s a short novel at 31,000 words, and now Kris will read it and then it will go to WMG for copyediting, then it will be posted to the Shared World Class.
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Blog postHit Second Stretch Goal… And headed for the third. Kris and I are very pleased because we really love this idea of having a joint set of collections. Five books with fifty of her stories and fifty of mine to make 100 science fiction stories in total.
That’s right, all science fiction. And all types of science fiction. All with the title Colliding Worlds.
All of these have been published before, but I guarantee not one person out there besides the crew at WMG Publishing will h -
Blog postTaking Longer But Almost Done… Maybe two more days before it is finished and heads for print, the first issue since 2017. Then I am going to start at once on the February issue and get out ahead. March right behind that.
Why talking longer is the learning curve on InDesign complex magazine layout. Two columns with ads and everything. And second instead of being able to use some of the ads from the first 44 issues, I am rebuilding every ad. That is taking time, but that will get quick -
Blog postWhen the World Lets Me… Which is has for the last few days. Great fun.
I start off doing email when I first get up and get going. Usually around noon or so.
Then errands and lunch.
Then around 3 or so I go down to our office and work down there for about an hour and a half, putting things together, sorting, putting up shelves, you name it. Basically physical work.
Then more email, then a quick nap and then dinner.
After dinner I am in here doing other -
Blog postBecause It Is Fun To Learn and Use In Fiction… Really is that simple. Problem is, so many writers (and I have read three just lately) who do not know space terms and measurements, or do not know how to fake it, or go around it. And using a term wrong is deadly to a story.
The problem is that for almost all humans, understanding real distances in space is just almost impossible. Unless you work on it and are interested in it, your mind will not even pretend to grasp the real distances -
Blog post100 Science Fiction Stories… Fifty from Kris, fifty from me, in a five volume set.
Colliding Worlds
This is us having a great time. We have also talked about doing joint collections of some sort of another, and then Kris came up with the idea of us putting 100 of our science fiction stories in the same set of five books called COLLIDING WORLDS.
Really, if you have a few minutes, watch the video. We talk about our writing process a little as well.
Each book wil -
Blog postWeb Site Acting Whacky… So going to post this quick to keep my streak alive in case something goes wrong. Plus I am late tonight.
I got late because I finished a short story after all the assignments from the workshops. Then I spent a couple hours on the Cave Creek novel.
So good progress on writing today, and I spent a bunch of hours down in our office working on getting stuff in order down there while we had cleaners up here. And a couple hours out looking for supplies to u -
Blog postOn Different Streaks, Challenges, and Exercise… — Today is 3,084 straight days I have done a blog a day here without missing.
Yup, that’s nuts.
— I am slowly ramping back up my exercise, gaining a little bit more a week on a walking streak. I let myself relax and not push after the marathon because I wanted to just not think about it over the holidays. So going to take me another month or so to get the steps back up to pre-marathon levels. And maybe two months to drop the wei -
Blog postJust One of Those Things… As last night, another annoyance caused by epic disorganization. And I do mean epic.
Fixable, but annoying.
This today comes from my inability to get organized in a meaningful and long-term fashion with my writing and publishing. And this concerns Smith’s Monthly.
Today, I really dug into the layout of Smith’s Monthly Issue #45. Now understand, Issue #44 came out in the summer of 2017. I have a ton of ads and promotions about a lot of my book -
Blog postIn Other Words, Do As I Say, Not As I Have Done… Spent more hours tonight than I care to think about getting organized from at least three or more years of not being organized, just writing.
Yes, I am reverting to a spread sheet for some stuff, and file folders to gather up story files. But trust me, when you get upward of a hundred short stories that are not tracked or in any kind of order, and you are writing as much as I am, it is time to organize. Don’t wait until then. Too stupi
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